Also, I've noticed that either we're solving less blocks proportionately to the pools Compute power, or something... seems the payouts are smaller per day (yeah I know, its a crummy way of thinking about it... but it seems that either difficulty went up, or we've been less lucky or something.

Any ideas?

Oh and I added another 300MH/s to the pool. my other 6950 arrived... and i just 'borrowed' a new box in for it, as i can't order a new power supply till the weekend is over. (Mine only has 3 PCIE cables... a 600w Silverstone Strider)

I've noticed my per round payout has been getting smaller too! Even after the difficulty change. I also notice that the pool hashrate is getting much faster, which translates to your shares being a smaller % of the total round shares!

Just curious if there is any expected ETA for being able to buy / sell BTC through the pool? I like the pool and would like to do all my BTC stuff within it if possible. I know it sounds naive and funny (perhaps lame) but I do have a bit of a feeling of trust with our Pool leaders.

So thanks again for all the hard work, and hope everyone is having a good weekend!

As do I! I feel it would be easier to trade here than Mt Gox->LR->bank!

I've noticed my per round payout has been getting smaller too! Even after the difficulty change. I also notice that the pool hashrate is getting much faster, which translates to your shares being a smaller % of the total round shares!

Right but at the same time the number of solved blocks per time t goes up so you get paid out a smaller amount more often.

I've noticed my per round payout has been getting smaller too! Even after the difficulty change. I also notice that the pool hashrate is getting much faster, which translates to your shares being a smaller % of the total round shares!

Right but at the same time the number of solved blocks per time t goes up so you get paid out a smaller amount more often.

Right, but the difficulty has increased, so now (all things being equal) it will take more work to solve each block. so that will tend to counteract the more frequently, except if ones compute power scales with difficulty... as we are knew it could seem that way for the first few increments in dif... however, relatively, my hashing power is getting smaller.. so the payments will drop in size... and thus i'll make less as difficulty increases. (so will anyone whose compute power is static)

Difficulty increases will keep people who consider it, from going hog wild on new hardware... unless BTC value scales with difficulty... which it won't do in the short term. And I don't know enough about the BTC economy to make any long term predictions whatsoever.

We're using a technique for announcing new blocks to users, It's called "long polling".When we find/change the working block - we announce it to all users. This line will be displayed in your log/terminal when we do so.

We're using a technique for announcing new blocks to users, It's called "long polling".When we find/change the working block - we announce it to all users. This line will be displayed in your log/terminal when we do so.

Thanks for your reply.What do you mean with change the working block?Mining means finding right? Not changing any block that is already found by some other pool?Can you maybe highlight this part a bit?Thanks a bunch for this awesome pool btw.

Is the pool really down or are stats on the website just not working again? All my miners are running fine and it I received payout for a round that it appears finished around two hours ago but everything else reads 0 on the site.

We received a HTTP based request against both the pool and webserver which lead to excessive database-load. This was quickly fixed, but the fix lead to a bit more downtime a while later due to a crashed database table.

Everything should be back up and running, and we'll keep investigating this attack later tonight.

I've been getting some "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC" too, but not always. Not a major issue for me since I used the -f flag to have a backup pool, but if if your only pool then yeah, it'll be idle a lot.